I chased this mourning cloak butterfly around the middle of the forest, while they searched for the perfect sunny spot to warm themselves on a cool day.
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Milkweed seeds emerging
Painted lady
Mullberry wing
I caught this mullberry wing butterfly lunching on some purpletop vervain. They’re so small for a butterfly! I assumed it was a moth before I looked it up.
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Mating green darners
More dragonfly chasing… These mating green darner dragonflies were zooming all around the pond together for quite a while. They landed a few times when the female (in the back) would dip her abdomen in the water to release the fertilized eggs.
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Pollinating
Purple aster pollinator
Monarch butterfly.
Happiness is a butterfly
View more →“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne